John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg (26 February 1852-14 December 1943) was an American physician and nutritionist who was director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, the inventor of breakfast cereal corn flakes, and a supporter of the Eugenics movement.

Biography
John Harvey Kellogg was born in Tyrone, Michigan in 1852, and he was raised in a Seventh-day Adventist family. He became the director of his church's Battle Creek Sanitarium, and he combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital, and a high-class hotel. He treated both the rich and the poor, and he remained the director of the sanitarium until his death in 1943; this happened despite being disfellowshipped in 1907 due to a major schism within his denomination.

Kellogg supported progressive causes such as health reform (supporting temperance, anaphrodisic foods, and sexual abstinence), supported the germ theory of disease, supported abstention from tobacco and alcohol, and created a vegetarian and anaphrodisiac breakfast, Kellogg's breakfast cereal corn flakes. In 1906, he, Irving Fisher, and Charles Davenport created the Race Betterment Foundation, supporting eugenics, racial segregation, and the prevention of non-whites and immigrants entering the gene pool. He died in 1943.